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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

This repository contains lots of packages, but so many of them seem to be out of date, for example there are none of the KDE 3.4 applications and the version of the Eclipse platform in there is version 2.1 (the latest version at time of writing is 3.1).

I´m new to using debian-based setups and have found the apt utility excellent for getting new software quickly and without worrying about dependancies but I´d love to get some of the newer versions of software onto my PC.

Am I looking in the wrong place? Should I use multiple repositories? (such as a dedicated repository for each application I´m after - if so, which ones?).

You might want to check out experimental. But you'll probably have some bugs in there. Packages move through the different repositories over time if they're tested long enough. It often takes some time before the really new versions are in sid. It all depends on how fast the maintainer gets the new version in I think.

I wouldn't worry that much about the new KDE (3.4), does it have so many new features that you absolutely need it ???

I also used to want all the latest packages, but looking at the actual improvements (well, especially the improvements you really are going to use) I noticed that there wasn't that big of a difference between the different versions (I waited a long time for KDE 3.2, and when I got it, I didn't see why I had wanted it so badly all those months )

About Eclipse. I'm an Eclipse user myself too. What I do is manually install the Java SDK from Sun in my user-directory and add the system variables (JAVA, JAVA_HOME, etc.) to my users .bash_rc file (this way only my user can use Java). Next, download Eclipse 3.02 from the Eclipse site, install (it's actually just unpacking) it in your home-directory. Next, create a launcher that launches Eclipse and specify on the launch command the location of the JVM to be used by Eclipse (I think it's the option '-vm').

Well kde is supposed to be a bit quicker than earlier versions. I tried the debian sid version (3.3.2) though and it was a lot faster than it was when I last used it a year ago. Still not going to use it though